Nestlé Opens Expanded Manukau Production Facility

Nestlé New Zealand
Opens New Expanded Production Facility In Manukau
City

Nestlé New Zealand's new, expanded production
facility at its Cambria Park site in Wiri, Manukau City, was
officially opened today by the company's worldwide chairman,
Rainer Gut and New Zealand's Prime Minister, The Right
Honourable Helen Clark.

The opening is an exciting
milestone for Nestlé and the result of a $20 million
investment by the company. It was the main reason for Mr
Gut's visit, the first to New Zealand by a Nestlé chairman,
demonstrating Nestlé's confidence in the local business and
the world-class status of the facility.

"The Cambria Park
extension means increased production, the creation of 65 new
jobs and an extra $25 million in export revenues, taking
total export earnings up to $70 million," said Mr Gut. "It
demonstrates Nestlé's commitment to an ongoing presence in
Manukau and New Zealand."

Nestlé first entered the New
Zealand market more than 100 years ago when it began selling
Nestlé milk products in the 1880s. The original Cambria
Park production facility was officially opened in May 1962
by the then Prime Minister, Sir Keith Holyoake, and has been
expanded several times over the years.

Prime Minister
Helen Clark, speaking at today's ceremony, reflected on
Prime Minister Holyoake's words from the 1962 opening that
the factory was 'part of the new New Zealand we must create
in the 1960s.'

"And I ask what has changed?" said Prime
Minister Helen Clark who added the Nestlé expansion was
music to her ears as well as those of the Manukau Mayor Sir
Barry Curtis and the local government MPs.

The factory's
most recent expansion was announced following a decision to
consolidate sugar confectionery production from two sites,
one in Australia and Waiuku. It increases Nestlé New
Zealand's capacity to be internationally competitive in the
global market as a significant exporter of value-added
products.

Nestlé's Cambria Park factory has recently
contributed $20,000 and volunteered staff to the Manukau
City Council to plant a section of the Puhinui Reserve, as
part of it's Wai Care programme to improve water quality of
the Puhinui Stream.

The support is part of the Nestlé
Community Environment Programme designed to have a positive
impact in communities in which the company operates through
participation in projects and initiatives that help the
environment.

About Nestlé New Zealand:

Nestlé New
Zealand is one of New Zealand's top six FMCG food companies.
It has seven business sites in New Zealand and employs
around 700 people. Nestlé New Zealand's sales total nearly
$350 million per annum. Nestlé KIT KAT is New Zealand's
number one chocolate bar. MAGGI is a dominant market
leader, found in virtually every New Zealand home - over
70,000,000 retail units sold every year. MILO is a New
Zealand icon and has an 89 percent market share of tonic
drinks. NESCAFÉ is New Zealand's favourite coffee - two in
every five cups of soluble coffee is NESCAFÉ.

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